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Author Topic: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress  (Read 2137272 times)

Lehmusjoki

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #255 on: June 21, 2009, 08:11:54 am »

Collapsing a sky floor I had given up on, only to see it fall through my fortress, smashing its way down, before hitting a high pressure water pipe, flooding everything. Also, it destroyed the only bridge out.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #256 on: June 22, 2009, 01:47:01 pm »

At one point in my fortress, I had ~50 cats in one cage, and I had to rebuild it somewhere else to make room for a workshop.

To make a long story short, all of them escaped, half got chucked down a very tall staircase to a splatty doom, and my best carpenter ended up with four kittens following him around.

At least they weren't on fire this time.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #257 on: June 22, 2009, 03:14:49 pm »

Collapsing a sky floor I had given up on, only to see it fall through my fortress, smashing its way down, before hitting a high pressure water pipe, flooding everything. Also, it destroyed the only bridge out.

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #258 on: June 22, 2009, 09:47:44 pm »

And Shift + Enter to select the first however many stones in a group of stones.

I don't have to hit Enter 30 times (or a 100 times) when making floors and roads?

Well Damn.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #259 on: June 22, 2009, 09:53:05 pm »

And Shift + Enter to select the first however many stones in a group of stones.

I don't have to hit Enter 30 times (or a 100 times) when making floors and roads?

Well Damn.

I remember when I didn't know that, ha.  It was brutal.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #260 on: June 23, 2009, 12:18:16 am »

And Shift + Enter to select the first however many stones in a group of stones.

I don't have to hit Enter 30 times (or a 100 times) when making floors and roads?

Well Damn.

I remember when I didn't know that, ha.  It was brutal.

On a similar note, discovering that you can use the arrow keys to move walls/roads/etc around before locking them down for construction. I don't have to get them in exactly the right place first try!?
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #261 on: June 23, 2009, 01:48:34 am »

On my third fortress, at the ocean shore:

"Oh, i killed my first fire imp, must be valuable, I'll butcher it."

2 minutes later: "Smoke in my food store? Fu... The booze is on fire!"

20 minutes and some useless efforts to save the situation later: the last tantrum-crippled dwarf dies of thirst

*sigh*
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #262 on: June 23, 2009, 07:32:11 am »

Yeah, I built a 16-z-level dome before I figured out the shift-enter thing...
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #263 on: June 23, 2009, 07:54:48 am »

lol pretty much all the building related problems can be solved by reading the menues
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #264 on: June 23, 2009, 09:39:59 am »

j->m->q

...and realizing that "Manager" wasn't a pointless position.

It wouldn't be much of a facepalm, if it weren't that I'd scanned that list a few dozen times over many forts before realizing what it was for.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #265 on: June 23, 2009, 10:11:43 am »

j->m->q

...and realizing that "Manager" wasn't a pointless position.

It wouldn't be much of a facepalm, if it weren't that I'd scanned that list a few dozen times over many forts before realizing what it was for.

If your manager isn't stuck in bed with a broken arm, it is much easier to fulfill mandates.  You just figure out what you need for the mandate(be it some more metal bars, or just some stuff milled out), and then go tell the manager to manage.  I love managers.  :)
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #266 on: June 23, 2009, 10:16:17 am »

I am working on a megaproject involving casting lots of obsidian, including in some ... hard to reach places. I set up a long pipe to pump magma through, partly dug through the mountain, partly some walls above ground. I set up about 100 lever-operated doors that'll open to mix the magma and the water, walled off a chamber to fill with water from the aquifer, you get the idea. Tons of preparation.

Then I turned on the pumps. The water filled nicely. The magma was moving more slowly. I figured this was due to it being thicker than water. I waited for a few more "cancels pump, exhausted" cycles, and checked the magma again. It hasn't moved.

A freaking tree grew in my pipe.

Now I've got 7/7 magma filling most of a long pipe. I opened up the far end of the pipe to send a woodcutter in to get rid of the tree, but he won't go. I'm going to have to vent the magma out into the grass...
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #267 on: June 23, 2009, 10:41:53 am »

That's so annoying! Gosh.

Good luck. Try building a detour that's all bendy.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #268 on: June 23, 2009, 11:25:04 am »

Don't vent it into the grass until you evacuate everybody or set up firebreaks. 

Personal experience: I just had the material part of an early fortress wiped out because I forgot to put in the last tile of a magma channel and it went all over the place when the power system got hooked up.  I was able to stop that by the pull of a lever, but by then the magma had ignited the grass and flames were eating my outdoor stockpiles.  My dwarves were only saved by drafting them all and ordering them across the river.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #269 on: June 23, 2009, 11:56:17 am »

After a large series of announcements I realized that lever was connected to TWO bridges.
And the other bridge...?

By the context I'm going to go ahead and assume that the other bridge was also connected to high-traffic areas, since the most likely announcements are either "we can't get there, boss" or "Urist McButcher is splattered all over the pit, boss"
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